You see the challenge this month is to make something that includes chocolate and green, I found that even more difficult than the savoury and chocolate challenge of last month. However, I came up with a solution of sorts.

I had about 6 tablespoons of cooked gooseberries left over from the Irish Gooseberry Sconesso I simply put them in an ovenproof bowl and added the following chocolate sponge:

50g soft butter

50g caster sugar

1 egg

25g self-raising flour

25g cocoa powder

1 level tsp baking powder

50g dark chocolate, chopped roughly

Put all the ingredients into a bowl and beat until combined, put on top of your cooked gooseberries and drop the pieces of chocolate into the batter. Bake in the oven at 180C for about 30-40 minute until the sponge is well risen and the fruit is bubbling.

This is quite a high proportion of baking powder to dry ingredients (it was a mistake) but it made for a very light and airy sponge which wasn't too sweet. It would easily serve 3-4 people, if you have more fruit then double up the ingredients and use about 500g fruit.

and just to show that it is green(ish), here is a side shot of the gooseberries with the uncooked chocolate sponge mix on top.Not my most elegant of recipes, but I didn't see anyone refuse to eat it!

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